Edna
(Minerd) Wagner
(1884-1952)
Edna
May (Minerd) Wagner was born in 1884 at Dunbar, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of Rev.
David E. and Catherine (Williams) Minerd.
Edna was a scholar, and graduated salutatorian of Dunbar High School, class of 1901. She then went into the field of education, and is known to have taught at Gettemy School in 1902 and Frame School in 1905. A Connellsville Courier article said that at the end of the 1906 school year, she and a colleague "delighted their pupils ... by treating them to oranges and candy."
On
Dec. 18, 1918, at the age of 34, Edna married Johnson D. Wagner (1873-1941), a 45-year-old
Minnesotan who worked as a clerk in Pittsburgh, and later as a railroad
engineer. They
had one son, Winton 'Roy' Wagner.
Every year, in July, Edna and her siblings would gather together to honor their aging father on his birthday, at the old family homestead in Dunbar. It served as an annual reunion for the family, and the events were well-attended. Seen here, Edna is standing 3rd from left, with her father 2nd from right. Others, left to right: Dr. Harold 'Daniel' Minerd, Mary Belle Riley, Bess Lemon and William Alfred Minerd.
Johnson died in 1941. Edna
died on May 29, 1952. They are buried at Youngwood
Cemetery.
Daughter in law Gladys Wagner is pictured in the book, Our Town in Picture and Story: Youngwood, Pennsylvania 1899-1974.
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